[ltp] ibm-acpi-0.10

Nick Bower linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:21:56 +0100


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Thanks as always Borislav.  Do the fan/temperature features introduce
risk to the hardware?

On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 15:41 -0800, Borislav Deianov wrote:
> Hi,
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> It's been a couple of months and ibm-acpi was getting stale.
> Especially with module parameters not working in 2.6.10, it was really
> starting to stink up was the house... :-). So there you go, an update:
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> This is the 10th - oh let's call it beta - release of my ACPI driver
> for IBM Thinkpad laptops. The features currently supported are:
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> 	- Fn key combinations
> 	- Bluetooth enable and disable
> 	- video output switching, expansion control=09
> 	- ThinkLight on and off
> 	- limited docking and undocking
> 	- UltraBay eject
> 	- CMOS control
> 	- LED control
> 	- ACPI sounds
> 	- Experimental: temperatures and fan speed
> 	- Experimental: embedded controller register dump
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> Changes since 0.8 (the version included in 2.6.10):
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>         - support for the 570, R30 and R31
>         - ultrabay support for the A22p and A3x
>         - drop experimental status from cmos, led and beep functions
>         - fix module parameter passing
>         - modified blank.sh should work with X on Debian and Fedora
>         - default radio.sh script uses ipw2100 RF kill switch
>         - default blank and hibernate events use the swsusp2 hibernate.sh
>         - experimental temperatures and fan speed
>         - experimental embedded controller register dump
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> The major new experimental feature is the temperature and fan speed
> display. Some models (T and X series, maybe others) can show several
> temperature readings (in addition to CPU temperature) and the current
> fan speed. Three models (X31, X40 and 570) can control the fan speed
> to a certain degree. See the README for the full details.
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> I still have a few things in my backlog, namely support for the 240,
> 600e, 770x and G41. Coming soon, I just needed to get something out
> the door (I've been sitting on the 0.10 stuff for a while...).
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> http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/
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> Enjoy,
> Boris
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Nick Bower <nick@nickbower.com>

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